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    Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses: Poems
    Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses: Poems
    Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses: Poems
    Ebook72 pages39 minutes

    Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses: Poems

    By Edmundo Estevan Apodaca

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    My book is a compilation of my poetry I have written over a 25 year period. I included a short story because it started out as a poem and ended up as the beginning of the story. I have been inspired by the many events in my life,
    One poem Naturally was adapted from memory of a poem I read maybe 15 years ago by an author whose name I do not know. My poem is written and created by me but her poem about this theme did inspire me.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 26, 2014
    ISBN9781493163151
    Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses: Poems
    Author

    Edmundo Estevan Apodaca

    I am of Hispanic (Mexican American) and German decent. Born in Las Cruces, NM in 1951. I was educated in public school in southern NM, I spent one year in Catholic school in the 6th grade. I was active in sports while in school. I spent many years there afterwards experiencing many trials and tribulations and suffering much from my dependence on alcohol and other drugs. 23 years ago I turned my life around and went back to college. I received my Bachelor’s and my Master’s degree in Social Work. I love writing and reading the written word.

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      Book preview

      Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses - Edmundo Estevan Apodaca

      CONTENTS

      Biography

      Book Synopsis

      A Woman, A Mother, A Wife

      A Poem By The Same Name:

      There Is A Kingdom

      And I Dream

      Death:

      Dream

      Father

      Flutes

      Homeless

      I Flew By Your Window

      I Want To Tell You

      Naturally

      In My Mind

      Infinite Soul

      Interlude

      La Chicana

      Love Song

      Make Everyday Purposeful…

      My Love

      My View

      Mysticism

      No Confusion

      Oh Sun

      One Night With You

      Parable

      Poetry

      Por El Querer

      Porque

      Rosé Colored Glasses

      See The Sparkle In Her Eyes

      Stranger

      The Rider

      The Sound Of Silence

      The Tree

      Toca Me

      Today I Cry

      Wanting

      Wounded Warrior

      You’ve Changed My Life Completely.

      THEY CAME

      FROM SOMEWHERE LONG AGO

      A Short Story

      By Edmundo Estevan Apodaca

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      DEDICATION

      I want to dedicate this book to my Mother and Father for giving me the opportunity to become educated enough to write and to allow me to experience life through my own trials and errors.

      BIOGRAPHY

      I am of Hispanic origin. Born in Las Cruces, NM in 1951.

      I was educated in public school in southern NM, I spent one year in Catholic school in the 6th grade. I was active in sports while in school. I spent many years there afterwards experiencing many trials and tribulations and suffering much from my dependence on alcohol and other drugs. 23 years ago I turned my life around and went back to college. I received my Bachelor’s and my Master’s degree in Social Work.

      I love writing and reading the written word.

      BOOK SYNOPSIS

      My book is a compilation of my poetry I have written over a 25 year period. I included a short story because it started out as a poem and ended up as the beginning of the story. I have been inspired by the many events in my life,

      One poem Naturally was adapted from memory of a poem I read maybe 15 years ago by an author whose name I do not know. My poem is written and created by me but her poem about this theme did inspire me.

      A WOMAN, A MOTHER,

      A WIFE

      In your own wonderful way

      I always see a smile.

      I hope you see it too.

      In your own gentle way

      I am grateful for this while…

      I hope you feel it too.

      In your own beautiful way

      I am grateful for your being.

      I hope you know it too.

      Your softness, your gentleness, your compassion

      set my mood in motion.

      And for this I owe you my devotion.

      It was bad enough all I do is think of you.

      Knowing I could never give you anything.

      Never be with you. Love can be hard.

      So I picked the flowers while thinking of you.

      I find a joy in thinking of your wonderful smile

      and warm sense of humor.

      And I dream of being with you someday

      To you with all my love…

      A POEM BY

      THE SAME NAME:

      Wishing well a tug at my heart

      Last you came to my house

      We were happy together

      Now there is silence where you once were

      You cannot glue a broken heart back together

      You rushed off

      How could I have foreseen I wouldn’t see or hear from

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